Women and minorities bear the brunt of medical misdiagnosis, find studies
Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born.
Jan 22, 2024
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Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born.
Jan 22, 2024
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Rupak Datta, MD, Ph.D., MPH, is an assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases) at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and an assistant hospital epidemiologist in the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System. His ...
Jan 17, 2024
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A new study from researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, in collaboration with researchers at the University of California San Francisco, has shed light on the rate and impact of diagnostic errors in hospital settings.
Jan 8, 2024
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Hospitalized patients are more complex than they used to be. That's the finding of a newly published UBC study which set out to measure something researchers have been hearing anecdotally from hospital-based health care workers ...
Jan 8, 2024
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Because athletes young and old can suffer cardiac arrest, some states have mandated the placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in gyms, stadiums and other sports venues. But a new study finds the use of AEDs ...
Jan 2, 2024
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A U.S. online provider of the mifepristone/misoprostol abortion pill combo saw a ten-fold jump in orders when the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade was first leaked in 2022, a new study finds.
Jan 2, 2024
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Because athletes young and old can suffer cardiac arrest, some states have mandated the placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in gyms, stadiums and other sports venues. But a new study finds the use of AEDs ...
Jan 2, 2024
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Nearly one in five deceased patients are marked alive in electronic health records (EHRs) and 80 percent received primary care outreach after their death, according to a research letter published online Dec. 4 in JAMA Internal ...
Jan 1, 2024
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For older adults, exposure to a low thyrotropin (TSH) level from either endogenous or exogenous thyrotoxicosis is associated with an increased risk for incident cognitive disorder, according to a study recently published ...
Dec 30, 2023
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Research led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, has found that an intensive food-as-medicine program showed no improvement in glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes ...